No matter how much you write to it, symone.raven@gmail.com will NEVER BE Raven-Symone’s e-mail address
A while back, I got tired of kids writing to me asking for Raven-Symone’s e-mail address. I had to keep telling them that I didn’t have it, and that there is no reason to think I WOULD have it. Yet some of these kids, who are just kids, and who aren’t necessarily very smart, kept pestering me.
So in a previous blog entry, I gave this address — symone.raven@gmail.com — and announced in plain language that it is NOT Raven-Symone’s e-mail address, and that it is in fact an address I registered through Gmail. I figured if people were going to keep harassing me for information I didn’t have, I might as well just make up some information and give it to them.
Sure enough, that fake address spread quickly within the Raven-Symone community, and I have received nearly 100 e-mails from devoted Raven-Symone fans, most of whom begin with, “Is this really your e-mail?????,” even though I clearly stated before that it is not.
Anyway, to repeat: symone.raven@gmail.com still is NOT Raven-Symone’s e-mail address. If you write to that address, your e-mail will be read by me, Eric D. Snider. If anyone replies, it will be me, Eric D. Snider, pretending to be Raven-Symone. The real Raven-Symone has no idea who I am and has no knowledge of this e-mail address.
I’m making this very plain because I think a lot of you will read it, see the words “raven-symone” and “e-mail address,” and write to the address regardless of what I’ve said about it. And later, when I publish your e-mails on this site, we will all have a good laugh at the sort of things people say when they write letters to Raven-Symone.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Hey Eric, do you think that posing to be Raven-Symone - despite how utterly funny it is to read the emails that you have been getting about it - may be illegal in some way? I don’t really know, but there has been a big crackdown on internet predators. Now we all know you aren’t a predator, but I was just curious if you thought of that.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
I’m pretty sure that since he has repeatedly (as in, 14,723 times) said that he is NOT Raven-Symone and it is NOT her email address, he could probably beat a “pretended to be Raven-Symone” rap in court.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Even if he was pretending to be her, which he isn’t, he’d still be okay as long as he didn’t harm anyone with it (And that includes Raven-Symone). You can’t be found culpable if no one can show any damages.
And, since he never prints anyone’s names, he can print the emails in a book later on down the road should he choose to do so.